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BOOKS ABOUT
ACTING & ACTRESSES

Acting: The First Six Lessons
Acting:
The First Six Lessons


Charlotte : Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World
Charlotte:
Being a True Account
of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World


Three Tragic Actresses : Siddons, Rachel, Ristori
Three Tragic Actresses : Siddons, Rachel, Ristori




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Actresses of Stage & Screen Prints, & Photographs, “M...-”
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Notable actresses ~

Marjorie Main
Mademoiselle Mars
Mary Martin
Hattie McDaniel
Ethel Merman

Marilyn Miller
Liza Minnelli
Carmen Miranda
Helena Modjeska

Marilyn Monroe
Lola Montez
Colleen Moore
Rita Moreno



Marjorie Main, The Life And Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle"
Marjorie Main

Marjorie Main
b. 2-24-1890; Acton, IN
d. 4-10-1975

• Marjorie Main played ‘Ma Kettle’ in “The Egg & I”
Author Betty McDonald Concentrating on the Subject of Her Book, Called “The Egg and I”


Mademoiselle Mars, Giclee Print
Mademoiselle Mars,
Giclee Print

Mademoiselle Mars
b. 2-9-1779; Paris, France
d. 3-20-1847; Paris

Anne Françoise Hyppolyte Boutet Salvetat, known as Mademoiselle Mars, is associated with ingenue and coquette parts in plays by Molière and Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. She had a career that spanned more than 50 years, and was a member of the Comédie-Française company for 33 years.


Actress Mary Martin Singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" During Broadway's "Leave It to Me", Photographic Print
Mary Martin
Photographic Print

Mary Martin
b. 12-1-1913; Weatherford, TX
d. 11-3-1990; Rancho Mirage, CA

My Heart Belongs
Peter Pan


Hattie McDaniel Photo
Hattie McDaniel
Photo

Hattie McDaniel
b. 6-10-1895; Wichita, KS
d. 10-26-1952

Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Academy Award (1939 - Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind).

Paul Robeson photo
Show Boat poster


Ethel Merman, Photo
Ethel Merman,
Photo

Ethel Merman, née Ethel Agnes Zimmermann
b. 1-16-1908; Queens, NY
d. 2-15-1984

Ethel Merman, known for her powerful voice, is often called the “Queen of the Broadway Stage.”


Marilyn Miller in “Sally” with Joe E. Brown, 1929, Giclee Print
Marilyn Miller in “Sally”
with Joe E. Brown, 1929,
Giclee Print

Marilyn Miller (née Mary Ellen Reynolds)
b. 9-1-1898; Evansville, IN
d. 4-7-1936; NYC (complications for sinus surgery)

Marilyn Miller, an accomplished dancer, singer and actress was the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and 30s. She toured with her family's vaudeville act as a child, and was made a star by Flo Ziegfeld in his Follies of 1918.

Given the name Mary Ellen, Miller constructed her stage name Marilyn from her given first name, her mother's middle name Lynn, and her stepfather. She was so popular that Marilyn became the 16th most common name for girls by 1930.

The Other Marilyn: A Biography of Marilyn Miller


Liza Minnelli, Photographic Print
Liza Minnelli,
Photographic Print

Liza Minnelli
b. 3-12-1946; Hollywood, CA

Actress and singer Liza Minnelli is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in the musical Cabaret.


Carmen Miranda (Maria de Carmo Miranda de Cunha) American Singer Known as the Brazilian Bombshell, Photographic Print
Carmen Miranda (Maria de Carmo Miranda de Cunha) Singer Known
as the Brazilian Bombshell,
Photographic Print

Carmen Miranda
née Maria de Carmo Miranda de Cuhna
b. 2-9-1909; Portugal
d. 8-19-1955; California

Carmen Miranda, born in Portugal and raised in Brazil, was known as the “Brazilian Bombshell”. Remembered for her samba singing and dancing, and her signature towering headdresses made of fruit, she also inspired the popular costume jewelry that has become a popular collector's item today.

Miranda is considered one of the high earning women in the United States during the 1940s.

Carmen Miranda - DVD


Helena Modjeska, Historic Print
Helena Modjeska,
Historic Print

Helena Modjeska
néé Modrzejewska
b. 10-12-1840; Poland
d. 4-8-1909; California (Bright's disease)

Helena Modjeska specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles that included Ophelia, Juliet, Desdemona, and Nora. Modjeska was very well known in her day: she was honored by the Barrymore family as the godmother of Ethel, was a model for a character in Willa Cather's novella My Mortal Enemy, and it is suggested that Arthur Conan Doyle modeled his Sherlock Holmes love interest character, Irene Adler, on Modjeska.

When she and her husband left Poland for California in 1876 their friend Henryk Adam Aleksandr Pius Sienkiewicz, a future Nobel Prize winner, travelled with them.

In America: A Novel by Susan Sontag (based on Modjeska's life)


Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker), American Film Actress, Photographic Print
Marilyn Monroe
Photographic Print

Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jean Mortenson)
b. 6-1-1926; Los Angeles
d. 8-5-1962; Brentwood

“I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be woman in it...”

Marilyn Monroe was married to playwright Arthur Miller 1956-1961.

• “One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.” ~ Clifford Odets


Maria Dolores Eliza Roseanna Gilbert Known as Lola Montez
Maria Dolores Eliza Roseanna Gilbert, Known as Lola Montez, Giclee Print

Lola Montez
b. 2-17-1821; Ireland
d. 1-17-1861; New York

Lola Montez was the stage name of Irish-born actress who became famous as an exotic dancer and courtesan. As mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, she caused the outcry for his abdication, and was forcing her from Europe. She then performed in places like gold rush era San Francisco and Australia. She died in poverty of illness in New York City.


Colleen Moore, Photographic Print
Colleen Moore,
Photographic Print

Colleen Moore, née Kathleen Morrison
b. 8-19-1899; Port Huron, MI
d. 1-25-1988; California

Colleen Moore, a silent film star whose bobbed hairstyle was copied around the world, was a 1922 WAMPAS Baby Star.

Among her first films were A Hoosier Romance and Little Orphant Annie [sic] based on poems by James Whitcomb Riley; she is also associated with Samuel Hopkins Adams Flaming Youth, and mentioned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Moore was also fascinated by doll houses, creating a dollhouse that toured the U.S. in 1928. It is exhibited at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.


Actress Rita Moreno Wearing a Turtle Neck Sweater and Slacks walks like a "Sophisticated" Actress, Photographic Print
Actress Rita Moreno
Photographic Print

Rita Moreno
b. 12-11-1931; Puerto Rico

Hispanic Heritage posters
West Side Story poster
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